The Advocacy Advance Team has produced a report on rumble strip policies and we are working with a number of states to ensure road agencies are enacting bicycle-tolerable rumble strip policies and adhering to them. However, we haven't excerpted the report on the blog yet. So let's start the week off with that.
You can read the whole report here (PDF). The League, the Alliance for Bicycling and...

We want to update you on the bike ban in Black Hawk, CO. We have continued to monitor the situation and we are supporting our colleagues at Bicycle Colorado in the fight to overturn it.They offer the following update:

As bicyclists and advocates, we spend a fair amount of time with our attention paid to the political world, to promote policies that foster better bicycling conditions. It is less common that the political world turns its attention to bicycling. The Tour de France, this year, has attracted at the notice of at least some politicos. The National Journal's Hotline On Call shows us the parallels...

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHaood's remarkable streak of promoting bicycling and walking continues today in anticipation of this Fourth of July Holiday weekend. The secretary writes on his blog about the US Bicycle Route System.

I am currently researching ways that bicycling advocacy groups can organize to get strong bicycling language into the Climate Action Plans of states, cities, and universities to reduce Green House Gas emissions (suggestions/expertise welcome).